[OANNES Foro] Anchoveta: The little fish that can feed the world

Mario Cabrejos casal en infotex.com.pe
Jue Feb 16 09:46:49 PST 2017


Fish and Fisheries 2017; 1-6

DOI: 10.1111/faf.12206

 

The little fish that can feed the world

Patricia Majluf1 | Santiago De la Puente2 | Villy Christensen2

1Oceana, Lima 18, Peru 2 Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, The
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Correspondence:
s.delapuente en oceans.ubc.ca

 

Abstract

Peru is home to the world's biggest fishery with catches of over 95 million
tonnes of anchoveta (Engraulis ringens), since 2000, yet one in six small
children in Peru suffer from chronic malnutrition. This is not because
anchoveta is unsuitable for human consumption-on the contrary, they are
nutritious, tasty and available year-round,close to the coast. Almost all
anchoveta are, however, reduced to provide fishmeal and oil for export. Only
a few per cent of the landings are used for direct human consumption,and
while this use has increased significantly over the last decade, the growth
has stopped because of perverse incentives that encourage landing for
reduction purposes, combined with production methods that are expensive and
unsuitable for large-scale operations. We discuss the roadblocks and
prospects for significantly increasing the contribution of anchoveta to
global food security and provide an outlook for how big this contribution
potentially could be. It is time to change how anchoveta is used.



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